St. Monica pray for us! Praying for our husbands....

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What a great thread, glad I found it and the St Monica prayer, please add my family, and Joe, my husband to your prayers, I’m not sure if I should be pushing him or letting him come on his own. We(me ) are raising 5 children catholic, but he doesn’t come to mass, he excercises and rides his bike on sundays, I struggle with all the children at mass with just me, and it isn’t easy, I always pray for his interest in the faith to become very strong and practice as a family , I welcome all your prayers to join with mine that my beautiful husband will develope a loving relationship with our Lord
 
I have a question about the green scapular, too. What is it for? As a former Evangelical, I am worried about superstition. Are scapulars just a way of reminding ourselves to pray? What is special about the green one? Is it supposed to have “powers” of some kind?
 
Good morning, I am just poppng in to say hello and offer encouragement for today.

I am off to drive my youngest to hockey school, and will go for a combination walking/praying session in the bright morning sun. I shall pray for you all.

I am on day 24 of my 54 day Novena. It has been a bit tough, and I have been so afraid I would miss a day, but praise God, that hasn’t happened.

Have a blessed day, all!! 🙂
 
Susie G. I don’t know much about the green scapular. I hope someone else can fill you in. I do know for sure that they have no power of themselves; they are not magic. All the sacramentals (not Sacraments, there is a huge difference) represent our faith and prayers somehow. The Sacraments do that and also bring God’s grace.
Sandraladeda, I have managed to stay with the novena also, which is remarkable, being distractable as I am.
 
katy said:
Susie G. I don’t know much about the green scapular. I hope someone else can fill you in. I do know for sure that they have no power of themselves; they are not magic. All the sacramentals (not Sacraments, there is a huge difference) represent our faith and prayers somehow. The Sacraments do that and also bring God’s grace.
Sandraladeda, I have managed to stay with the novena also, which is remarkable, being distractable as I am.
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Can I get information on this 54 day novena? Where do I get it?
God Bless you. My prayers are with all you here.

Thanks in advance.
 
Cagrl said:
Can I get information on this 54 day novena? Where do I get it?
God Bless you. My prayers are with all you here.

Thanks in advance.
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See post #229 of this thread. It has what you are looking for.
 
I’m going to give the Novena another try. The 18 day one helped me in the past. This time I’ve printed out the chart and I’m going to cross off the days as I do them. I’m hoping this will also liven up my spiritual dryness of late. Today is day 1. Anyone care to join me?
 
Hi StGabriel:

I’ll try to join you. I couldn’t do the other one - I have a lot of pain. But I may be able to do the 18 day Novena. Making a chart is a good idea! Thanks for posting your idea!

mom4truth:clapping:
 
mom4truth said:
Hi StGabriel:

I’ll try to join you. I couldn’t do the other one - I have a lot of pain. But I may be able to do the 18 day Novena. Making a chart is a good idea! Thanks for posting your idea!

mom4truth:clapping:
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We’ll do it together. Two praying hearts are better than one. It’s easier to storm heaven. Add your suffering to the novena, we’ll need all the help we can get.
 
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Day 1 complete for me. Anyone else?
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I’m interested in joining in on the novena. Are you doing the 18 or 54 day? I can start today too just let me know which one and I will get to it. I agree. It’s better together than alone!! Let me know and I will do it tonight and I like the chart idea too!
 
Hi all,

I want to do the 18 day Novena. Does that mean that I say the Rosary 9 times in petition and then 9 times in thanksgiving along with the prayer just like the 54 day only shorter? I’ll start tonite.
Please, will someone let me know?

Thanks!👍

mom4truth
 
I got through 27 days of the previous 54 day novena, got sidetracked by money troubles and then picking up extra shifts at work to help things a bit.

I will pick this back up with you all tonight. I had the chart printed out from the last go-round, but I am a bit confused about the change from petition to thanksgiving-- do I stop petitioning and only give thanks? It was hard to think about especially with the electric company planning a shut off of our electric for Friday.

I do have much to be thankful for. :gopray2:
 
mom4truth said:
Hi all,

I want to do the 18 day Novena. Does that mean that I say the Rosary 9 times in petition and then 9 times in thanksgiving along with the prayer just like the 54 day only shorter? I’ll start tonite.
Please, will someone let me know?

Thanks!👍

mom4truth
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I have the same question. What is the 18 day novena? And which is the prayer that you pray that you mentioned that alongs with the 9 times Rosary in petition and 9 times in thanksgiving?

Thanks for your patience. I know this is sounding very confusing.
 

I am still new to this, but the original very helpful reply was posted on message 229 (put the cursor on the page numbers and it gives you the span of the numbered messages)-- here are the websites referenced in it:​

theholyrosary.org/54novena.html

beadsforprayer.com/Rosary/menu.htm#novena

There is a prayer of St. Monica on one of those sites I believe.

Oh and the scapular is only a reminder. Superstitious beliefs do not conflict with true faith. My pastor just had a blurb in our church bulletin this last weekend on that exact topic. I will look for it and try to quote it for you, it was well said.
 
The 18 day one is simple. 9 days of petition (the Rosary), 9 days of thanksgiving (the Rosary). I printed out the chart from the 54 day one and I am using that to keep track. Today is day 2. I was originally going to do the 54 day one, but we’ll see how we’re doing on day 9. Then it is the point of no return. Either we continue and go for the whole 54 or start thanking Our Lady.

Last night after day one, some of the most unusual things happened to me. My DH had to go the ER, he was feeling numbness along his right side. They took a CAT scan of his head and did some blood work, but they found nothing.🙂 As I was rushing to take my kids over to my mom’s, so I could be with him, my youngest pulled on a doillie that was on our end table in our living room and the glass lamp came crashing down beside him. It smashed into a bunch of pieces. My baby was find, except for a scare from the loud bang. Oddly enough, I had a glass guardian angel decoration beside the lamp given to me by my niece when I was expecting (which also came crashing down). It looked like the lamp crashed down on it, but the guardian angel (holding a baby in its arms) was left unmarked. Neither my DH or me had a good night’s sleep last night, but it makes me more deturmined than ever to do the novena.
 
I just double checked my private rosary booklet. It looks as though Our Lady of the Rosary (in Pompei) requested that we pray a total of 6 novenas.(A novena is 9 days). She requested 3 novenas in petition for 1 favor and 3 novenas in thanksgiving for the same favor. I think we should do the same as she requested. The chart on the website above includes the mysteries of light which was not available until more recently by JPII which throws the count off by a bit. Since we only had 3 groups of mysteries before, it would have taken 54 days to complete. Either way, I plan on doing the following: follow the chart from the link above which includes the mysteries of light. On the 28th day switch gears and start thanking. This may be tougher than I was planning but the end result will be well worth it. 👍

Today is day 2
 
Hi everyone:)

I’m Belle, I’m pretty new around here. I’m Catholic, always have been, and love my Jesus and church. My husband and I were married in the Catholic Church because I wanted (needed!) to be, but he’s not Catholic and has no plans to convert. Our daughter was baptized in the church and I bring her with me each week (she’s only 19 months old) – it’s tough going it alone.
My husband was brought up Methodist and he believes in God, I just don’t think he’s accepted Jesus as his savior. Of course I want him to know Jesus so he’ll have eternal life, but is it wrong to want him to know Jesus for my own benefit? I want our marriage, family, entire lives to be united together in Jesus – for all the big, important reasons, and for the little ones (like having some help with a toddler in church!) – is that OK? Does anyone else feel similar things?

Thanks,
Belle :gopray2:
 
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